South Korea is making a HUGE mistake

A South Korean minister recently announced the government's plan to increase the amount of immigration to the country by several orders of magnitude.

The reason for this was stated very clearly: South Korea has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, only about 0.85 births per woman. (On average 2 births per woman are necessary to keep the population unchanged.) And, as seems to be the doctrine of the modern world, low birth rates are considered a huge catastrophe, essentially a death sentence to a country, and the only way to fix this huge problem is to bring into the country millions of foreign nationals from distant lands. Because, obviously, that is the only possible solution to that problem. And to pretty much any other problem facing a country.

If South Korea really intends to do this, it's a huge mistake.

Firstly, I don't buy at all this "low birth rates are a huge catastrophe" mentality, as I have written before. Local populations have always gone up and down, and while a significant decrease in birth rates might temporarily bring some economic hardships to the country, those are just that, temporary, and much more minor than what they want you to believe. Sure, maybe governmental budgets will need to temporarily be cut from here and there, and maybe some services might become more congested, but all that is only temporary and will not kill the country.

Secondly, as has been seen for the past 40-50 decades in many European countries, bringing in millions of foreign nationals does not solve anything.

And thirdly, sudden increases in immigrants, especially from certain parts of the world, correlate directly to increases in crime.

Currently South Korea is one of the most peaceful and safest countries in the world. In fact, if you search, you can find TikTok and YouTube videos of young women in South Korea showing how they can take long walks alone in the middle of the nights on the streets of cities and towns without having to fear anything. They are never harassed, no crimes are committed against them, it's all extremely peaceful, safe and crime-free.

Now, bring into the country millions of immigrants, especially from certain parts of the world, and that will change radically. This has been seen again and again in Europe: The more immigrants you jam into a place, the less safe and more crime-ridden that place becomes.

If South Korea goes ahead with this plan, women in large parts of the country can say goodbye to their safety and peace. No longer will they be able to walk down the town streets without fear of being harassed or assaulted. Night or day.